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A revised description of the John Howard Yoder papers is in progress.  This finding aid is not complete.

births, deaths, marriages, etc. http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/bd_ms_188/

Elma E. Esau was born September 14, 1917, to Edward and Clara (Claassen) Esau near Whitewater, Kansas. She graduated from Whitewater High School in 1935 and attended Bethel College for two years. She returned to Bethel and completed her BA degree in 1969. From 1943 to 1981 she volunteered and then worked for MCC and its subsidiary, MTS (Menno Travel Service). Elma Esau began her MCC service at the Ypisilanti, Michigan, relief training unit in 1943. She then worked to set up and manage relief clothing centers in Ephrata, Pennsylvania; Kitchener, Ontario; and Newton, Kansas. In April, 1945, she went to the MCC Center in London, England, and from there on to serve in Amsterdam and Copenhagen. In the summer of 1947 she traveled around the US speaking to women’s groups at Mennonite churches about MCC’s relief work in Europe, and then she remained at Akron until April, 1949, when she went to Gronau, Germany, for additional relief service. In 1951 she escorted Mennonite refugees to Brazil and Uruguay. After two years in the MCC Personnel Office in Akron, she began her work for MTS in Newton in 1953 and continued there until 1958. In 1959 she ran the MTS office in Amsterdam. From 1962 through 1965 she directed the MTS office in Beirut, returning from mid-1966 to 1967, when the office was evacuated during the 6 Day War. She worked in numerous other locations for brief terms before returning to the MTS Akron office from 1969 to 1980, where she directed the tour department and lead many tours. She retired to her family farm near Whitewater in 1981 and moved to Kidron-Bethel in 1991. She was a lifelong member of the Emmaus Mennonite Church. She passed away on November 16, 2009. The collection provides unique and extensive documentation, including original correspondence and photographs, of the MCC work with refugees during and after World War II. In her MTS career she kept diaries and photographs from the numerous tours she directed. She also collected tourist literature from the dozens of countries she visited, and during the steamship area, kept items like menus and tickets. This collection also contains the papers (1 cubic foot) of Edward Esau (Elma’s father), who was born in Hohendorf, Am Trakt, Russia, on November 27, 1887. He immigrated to the United States in 1908 to avoid the Russian Forestry Service. He lived for a year with family in Bessie/Cordell, Oklahoma, and then moved to the Whitewater/Potwin area of Kansas. From 1908 through 1936 (except 1918-1920) he received frequent letters from his family and friends in Russia, primarily from his brother, Gerhard, and sister, Renate. The letters he received constitute almost the entirety of his papers and are all in German, but many have been translated and published by Elma in Russia Letters, 1995.

membership records and other material scanned from microfilms MF CHR 4, MF CHR 30, MF CHR 32 http://mla.bethelks.edu/metadata/cong_293.php

The collection consists of the script for the Mission '71 Anabaptist slide show.

The collection consists of a translation of Hutterite Jacob S. Waldner's World War I diary documenting his experience as a Conscientious Objector.

The collection consists of the will and testament of Jacob Oberholtzer.

A seemingly unpublished memoir of a prominant Japanese Anabaptist, in both Japanese and English translation, solicited by Leonard Gross of the Mennonite Historical Society.  Researchers should be aware that the English translation is incomplete.  Also included with the autobiography is biographical information about Sakakibara and selected articles by and about him, including a Sakakibara's reflections on the Anabaptist Center of Japan.

Meeting minutes of governing boards of and committees / working groups within the broadcasting office of the Mennonite Board of Missions.  Researchers will note that Mennonite Media ceased to have an independent board in 1981, when an administrative consolidation with the Mennonite Board of Missions made Mennonite Media a division of Mennonite Board of Missions Home Ministry.  Researchers should consult the Mennonite Board of Missions Executive Board Meeting Minutes for records reporting high-level decision-making regarding Mennonite Media from 1982 forward.

A small set of personal papers documenting the ministry and personal life of a pastor of the (old) Mennonite Church.  Materials include an autobiography, scattered diaries of Hartzler as well as his first and second wives, sermon and Bible course notes, and miscellaneous materials.  Also includes photographs of J.S. and Fannie Stutzman Hartzler and photographs and postcards from J.S. Hartzler's trip to India, the Middle East, and Europe in 1910-11.

A nicely representative collection of the kind of German books that an early 20th century central Kansas Mennonite would have owned.

These minutes and reports document the work of the governing body of an (old)  Mennonite Church entity that provided financial services and stewardship resources to North American Mennonites.  Some correspondence is included in the early reports and minutes.  This series includes records of the regular meetings as well as special meetings called for specific purposes.

Researchers should note that the more modern records in this series (circa 1970 and forward) consist of meeting dockets.

A small set of personal papers, primarily correspondence, documenting ministry, congregational life, and conflicts a northern Michigan congregations of the (old) Mennonite Church. Other materials in the collection include correspondence, reports, and programs of the Michigan Mennonite Ministers' Fellowship (1955-1970), minutes of the Indiana-Michigan Conference Area Ministers' Council #2 (Northern Lower Michigan) (1967-1977), and correspondence and interviews concerning a conflict in the Coldsprings Mennonite Church (Mancelona, Mich.) in 1973.

Wickey,who was ordained a pastor at South Colon Mennonite Church in 1956, appears to have served at the Maple River Mennonite Church (Brutus, Mich.) from the early 1960s through the late 1970s.

A small collection of miscellaneous materials created and collected by Jacob S. Moser, who apparently worked as a pharmacist in Orrville, Ohio.  Materials include two letters from Bendicht Spichti, a broadside telling of Solomon Herschi's suicide, an accound book, a record of patients treated [?], and notebooks and clippings contining recipes and information about various remedies.  Also includes a notebook containing records of garments knitted and sewed for others.

The collection is primarily in German, with some English notes.

Personal papers of an (old) Mennonite Church pastor and bishop, including correspondence, sermon notes and outlines, reminiscences, pastoral letters, and notebooks.  Of particular note are Shank's journal entitled "Our Gospel Tour," which describes a preaching junket he undertook with other Mennonite men in a borrowed car in 1925-1926.  Also of interest is Shank's unpublished book manuscript entitled, "Vital Issues of Our Times,"  Researchers should also note that membership and other records of the Carver Mennonite Church (Carver, Mo.) can be found in this collection.